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Constance Baker Motley Quotes


Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.